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I will try to grow NingXia Goji Berry, this one the berries are sweet
= Lycium barbarum (simplified Chinese: 宁夏枸杞; traditional Chinese: 寧夏枸杞
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This one has v tasty leaves, but the berries are bitter not to be used.
= Lycium chinense (Chinese: 枸杞)
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Introduction:
A friend purchased a goji berry plant from a plant shop in France. It looked like dead twigs after 3 years, nothing happened, not much leaves, almost inactive.
So, since I am a Chinese person, she asked me.
I took a few cuttings from the plant, large, smaller, thin. Several and put them in a glass of water.
My mother has goji berry plant growing wild in her garden in Canada. She prepared twigs for me, and they take roots v quickly.
So I just did the same.
Here is what these twigs look like after 2 weeks.
flowered another two days later, on 19th Aug.2015
The high grade, medicinal use dried grain goji berries are very sweet, tastes good.
So I started soaking some in a little cup. Then removed all the pulps and put the seeds on a cotton wad, then no sunlight. See what happens.
So there are two experiemnts:
1// cutting from a 2, 3 yr old plant purchased in France. Dont know what type it is.
2// Ningxia goji berries from seeds. Seeds were purchased in China from a food shop. Medicinal grade.
Day 1. 19aug2015
The twigs are from a plant purchased in France, been in the pot for 2, 3 years, without any flowers, this is the first time it flowered.
Both the original plant had flowers and cuttings here, also flowered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9LKMObdf8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCp1IUgbCs
http://gojiberry.com/tibetan-goji-berries-are-not-chinese-wolfberries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EJo5y8ZiM
goji berry flowers, small pink/purple flowers
https://petalsandwings.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/gogi-berry-16.jpg
Goji berry (Lycium barbarum) or Wolfberry is a deciduous shrub with an arching thorny branch. It has little purple flowers that turn beige before the petals drop. The berries turn from green to orange then bright red when they’re fully ripe. Fresh, ripe Goji berry has a very interesting taste, not sweet, not sour but meaty (for lack of a better word) for such a small berry. I think the sweetness of the dried berries come from the dehydration process perhaps.
Hopefully I’ll get more berries next year but between the Gray Catbirds and Cedar Waxwings I may not have any berries left. I’m not sure I can beat the winged competition.
goji berry 30Aug2015
cutting from Creuse; seeds in flower cup planter
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